I am back !!!

Yes!
I am back from my Reservist training.

From 19th April to 25th April, we have been transported to Pulau Tekong camp; heading towards this place called San Yong Kong camp.
This camp looked like it was built by Command & Conquer fans.
You have barracks, generators and a very spartan sanitary system laid out like a RTS game map with complimentary guard tower.

It's amazing how this island which is a ferry ride away from mainland could be so stuffy in the day and the temperature could plummet a mind numbing 20 plus degrees celsius by midnight.
I was shivering on my 1st night there.
My mates told me I was snoring and the snoring resembled that of a revving engine.
Hee hee hee.......

The grand finale of this act took part on a sunday night, the entire unit was sent forth on a marching order to the darkest part of island (in my own words).
Yes! It is darkest tekong for you Noobs out there. So dark that you can't see your own hand.
But yet, you have to be disciplined enough to resist the urge to use a torch.

Of course, there is help in a form of a glow strip stuck to the soldiers' helmet as a guide through the darkness.
I surfed thru the darkness from 12am to 4am, emerging at a beach.

An hour or so, I saw the sun rise from the eastern horizon.
I spent an hour staring at it; never so glad before seeing it.

I will be going to my Reservist (to the Americans known as National Guard) at Palau Tekong or in English, Tekong island.

National Guard aka "Weekend Soldiers"; Once a year, Once a month, 2 weeks a month.

Yes, that is applies too for Singaporean Reservists.

Someone once pop the question of "Are you willing to die for Singapore?" in the net.

Well, how about I phrase another way: "War is not about dying for your country. It's about making the other SOB die for his instead!" Gen. Patton.

War is not pretty. Period.

The dweeb who says it is 1.) a twerp who hasn't served in the military 2.) some MOFO with ulterior motive 3.) Warlord in the making.

Also I would like to address to people out there who lives in Singapore particularly; Singapore is small fricking island 24km across.

No hostile nation in their right mind will NUKE SingaFuckingpore.

Capish? Comprende? Understand?

Why?

A 16 kiloton (that is 1,000,000 tonne of TNT, I think) NUKE can destroy Hiroshima which is 20 something KM in diameter. The Nuke's name is "Little Boy".

It is probably the smallest nuke with the minimal strength of "Bang!" factor used.

Today Man's got Nukes that can destroy cities faster than I can have an orgasm!

Back to the point, if anyone nuke Singapore. He's gonna blow a lot of money to built the infrastructure he just busted which is counter productive. Plus the potency of modern nukes is such that the radioactivity will remain for hundred of years to come. That's not including the radioactive matter that will be spread to the neighbouring countries.

If anyone who says about Singapore is soooo small and can destroyed by a nuke.

Tell him/her/it to shut up and quit confusing real life and games altogether!

Plus the 1000 bombers raids idea; that is not going to work too!

Why? Whose gonna be so dumb as to use 1000 bombers with proppellers or jets, load them with incendiaries and burn Singapore to the ground?

First, it is a waste of money to buy 1000 bombers and built the hangars to house them, not to mention the amount of fuel to power them and the time to train the crews.

Second, Mordern War is about conquest. Not about loot, plunder and pillage like Attila the Hun.

Third, Singapore must blind as a bat to not see the obvious signs of 1000 bombers.

(Quit the idea of buying 1000 B-2s. It's not gonna happen. Uncle Sam is not selling his favourite scarecrow for a quid!)

A more likely scenario is that; Singapore (God forbid) will be blockade by an enemy navy in a bid to lay siege. The skies will be harrassed by aircrafts causing fear & certainty to the civilians and anyone who dares to leave the air space. An amphibious landing will almost be certainly be pulled off in a bid to take the island over.

The Singapore Armed Forces will fight an urban war similar to Stalingrad.

Know this; 250,000 men are soldiers to the country. The densest armed population in South East Asia per square km.

Oh yes, the million dollar question of paying your ministers or ministahs top dollar so that he does his job well.

The old adage says " You pay peanuts, you get monkeys."

I couldn't agree with that more.

Of course, the ministah had better not be an useless pissant who twiddle his thumb and assume the whole country is OK while he sips his cocktail/mocktail/vodka in his office.

I suppose 2 million smackaroos a year is alright for the Prime Ministah if he can do his stuff.

I know, I know.........PM and his band of men shouldn't be paid sooooo much.

That's conventional wisdom.

And most seasoned men would tell you that conventional wisdom seldom make sense at all.

Well, it is a lot of moolah to me. I confess that.

This will go on and on. Like God is man or woman.

So let's see what happens later this year.....

I've gotten my hands on the a G36c replica! Cool man!
One more stuff for my cosplay booty.....Yay!

Plus my first in a lifetime event.......I ate my 1st T-bone steak!

Pathetic huh?